TeXhax@cs.washington.edu (TeXhax Digest) (01/17/90)
TeXhax Digest Friday, January 12, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 9
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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Today's Topics:
Re: Circle fonts in LaTeX - the modification blues
Converting the ---.idx file
Metafont LN03 printer def
SliTeX, Bell & Howell, HP7475, Calcomp Plotmaster
FTPing to ymir.claremont.edu
A continuation of Network Sources of TeXware v2 (file TEXSERV.TEX)
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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 90 18:47 PST
From: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject: Re: Circle fonts in LaTeX - the modification blues
Keywords: LaTeX, fonts
The change from circle10 to lcircle10 is strictly in name. This
change was suggested a while ago by Pierre MacKay so that all of
LaTeX's fonts would begin with "l". It would appear that LL has
made the change official and you can now rename your LaTeX circle
fonts accordingly.
dh
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Date: 7 January 1990 01:30:24 CST
From: "ashish sen 996-2175 & 274-1947" <U08459%UICVM@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Converting the ---.idx file
Keywords: TeX
Is there a simple way to convert the ---.idx file made by using index{---} and
makeindex commands into an input file for making an index?
I am using Latex on a PC.
Also it would be useful to know for some of us what is TEX 3.0
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 90 16:42:26 EST
From: motsuk%cuavax.dnet@netcon.cua.edu
Subject: Metafont LN03 printer def
Keywords: METAFONT
'lo there
I'm trying to generate some Cyrillic fonts for the LN03+s at CUA.
Alas, I'm having no luck getting the printer definitions that are needed
by Metafont so the fonts will look good.
Can someone out there please send me the LN03 printer definitions?
Thanks
Paul Motsuk
motsuk@cua.bitnet OR motsuk@cuavax.dnet@netcon.cua.edu
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 90 16:14:23 EST
From: Rick Zaccone <zaccone%sol.bucknell.edu@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: SliTeX, Bell & Howell, HP7475, Calcomp Plotmaster
Keywords: SliTeX, Bell & Howell, HP7475, Calcomp Plotmaster
Does anyone know of software that will take SliTeX output and direct
it to an output device such as the Bell & Howell CDI-IV film recorder,
the HP7475 pen plotter, or the Calcomp plotmaster thermal plotter.
We have all of these things connected to either an Macintosh or IBM
PC. I'd like to take my dvi file and produce color slides on one of
these devices. I'd appreciate any leads.
Rick Zaccone
Bucknell University
zaccone@bknlvms.bitnet
zaccone@sol.bucknell.edu
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 17:21 PST
From: "D.A. HOSEK" <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU>
Subject: FTPing to ymir.claremont.edu
Keywords: general
Apologies to all who have attempted to FTP files from
ymir.claremont.edu and gotten protection errors... apparently the
directory structure on that machine has been changed somewhat.
The TeX stuff is in subdirectories of SOFTWARE:[ANONYMOUS.TEX]
(note the anonymous stuck at the beginning of the directory part
of the location). The login directory, incidentally, is
SOFTWARE:[ANONYMOUS].
dh
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{\bf Notes:} Users in the UK should express their return address in
the form:\nl
{\tx user@UK.AC.site.machine} (Non-academic users will have to replace
the `{\tx UK.AC}' with `{\tx UK.CO}')\nl
EARN/BITNET users must express their return address in the
form:\nl
{\tx user\%nodename.BITNET@EARN-RELAY} in order for JANET to be able to
send replies out through the EARN gateway correctly.\nl
Users on other networks (eg, {\tx .EDU}, {\tx .COM} etc) should
express their return address in a similar form to the EARN/BITNET
one: {\tx user\%machine.site.EDU@EARN-RELAY}, since the
NSFNET-RELAY gateway is not available for UK-to-US traffic.\nl
Note that the order of specifying domains {\bf is} important to the
EARN gateway. The syntax is similar for other networks accessed via
the this gateway. Other users should try EARN in the first
instance. If that fails, consult a local networking guru. If that
fails, mail the archive maintainer, Peter Abbott <{\tx
abbottp@aston.ac.uk}>, who should be able to put you in touch with
someone who can help.
{\bf Using Colour Book FTP (NIFTP):} Use your local {\tx TRANSFER}
command (part of the Colour Book suite of XXX implementations) with
the userID `{\tx public}' and the password `{\tx public}'. Give the
fully-qualified nodename, directory and filename as the remote
filename, and whatever you want as your local filename (where to
put it when it arrives). A file transfer gateway between JANET and
EARN/BITNET will be introduced experimentally during 1990.
{\bf Return addresses}: As a temporary facility (pending rewriting of
the mailer to obviate the need for users to quote their own
addresses) Brian $\{$Hamilton Kelly$\}$ has provided a remote
``identification'' service at Aston. Send email to <{\tx
rmcs\_tex@kirk.aston.ac.uk}> with the subject consisting of the
words `{\tx Where~Am~I}' (the case doesn't matter, and you can have
as much or as little white space between the words [including
none]), but there must not be any leading or trailing space, nor
any question mark. You should receive a reply telling you the
address to `plug into' your email request to TEXSERVER.
{\bf Examples of file specifications}:\nl
VAX/VMS directory and filename format is tree-structured: a valid
fully-qualified name therefore looks like\nl
{\tx [TEX-ARCHIVE.directory.subdirectory]filename.type;version}\quad
eg\nl
{\tx [TEX-ARCHIVE.msdos.tex]sb08tex.arc;2}\nl
A remote filename for FTP might look like\nl
{\tx UK.AC.ASTON.TEX::[TEX-ARCHIVE.digests.texhax89]tex89.114;1}
{\bf Post}: You can send snailmail to Peter Abbott, Computing Service,
Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, England,
enclosing blank formatted media: floppy disks or magnetic tape.
\ser{archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu} {Clarkson University}
This machine is one of the principal repositories of \TeX ware.
{\bf Access by}: Internet FTP, Mail
{\bf Commands}: These may vary depending on the implementation of
Internet FTP. You should ask your System Administrator for
details.\nl
{\tx ftp} {\st machine.site.domain}\quad opens an FTP session with a
remote machine. The next command may not be needed, depending
on how the remote machine is set up.\nl
{\tx user anonymous guest}\nl
{\tx cd} {\st directoryname}\quad connects you with the specified
directory.\nl
{\tx dir} $[${\st filespec}$]$\quad lists the contents of the current
directory.\nl
{\tx type} {\st filename}\quad types out the specified file on your
screen.\nl
{\tx tenex}\quad switches to 8--bit byte-stream mode for getting binary
files.\nl
{\tx get} {\st filename}\quad retrieves the specified file into your
local current directory.\nl
{\tx mget} {\st wildcard-filenames}\quad retrieves multiple files
matching the wildcards ({\tx *} and {\tx ?}).\nl
{\tx ascii}\quad switches back to ASCII mode for text files.
{\bf Example}: The commands typed by the user are \und{underlined}\nl
{\tx \$} \und{ftp sun.soe.clarkson.edu}\nl
{\tx Connected to sun.soe.clarkson.edu}\nl
{\tx 220 SUN.SOE.CLARKSON.EDU Server Process (52)-5 at Tue 2-Jan-90}\nl
{\tx 331 ANONYMOUS user ok, sent real ident as password}\nl
{\tx 230 User ANONYMOUS logged in at Tues 2-Jan-90 14:14-XXX, job 2}\nl
{\tx >} \und{cd /tex/binaries}\nl
{\tx >} \und{dir latex.*}\nl
(Listing appears on screen)\nl
{\tx >} \und{tenex}\nl
{\tx 200 Type L bytesize 8 ok.}\nl
{\tx >} \und{get latex.exe}\nl
(File is downloaded)\nl
{\tx >} \und{quit}\nl
{\tx 221 QUIT command received. Goodbye.}\nl
{\tx \$}
{\bf Notes}: This server is also accessible by mail: place your
sequence of FTP commands in a mail message to the address above.
Internet sites are also FTP-accessible to BITNET nodes via the
server at <{\tx BITFTP@PUCC}> (see below).
\ser{archive-server@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil} {The SIMTEL--20 server}
SIMTEL--20 is a large file server on the Internet and operates in
the same way as shown above for the Clarkson server. The \TeX ware
is mainly for PCs and is held in directory {\tx /msdos.tex}\nl
Non-Internet users can use the TRICKLE or BITFTP servers detailed
below to access these files.
The following Internet sites also have \TeX-related material:
{\tx argon.rti.org} (128.109.139.64) \TeX\ Previewer for VMS\nl
{\tx b.scs.uiuc.edu} (128.174.90.2) \LaTeX\nl
{\tx cayuga.cs.rochester.edu} (192.5.53.209) Xfig, \LaTeX\ styles, Jove,
NL-KR mail list\nl
{\tx crocus.waterloo.edu} (129.97.128.6) STEVIE (vi-clone), \TeX, more\nl
{\tx cs.washington.edu} (128.95.1.4) \TeX, \TeX hax, netinfo\nl
{\tx ctrsci.utah.edu} (128.110.192.4) \TeX\ fonts, make\nl
{\tx duke.cs.duke.edu} (128.109.140.1) gnutex, others\nl
{\tx freja.diku.dk} (129.142.96.1) GNU, X11R3, \TeX, nn newsreader, rfcs,
misc\nl
{\tx gatech.edu} (128.61.1.1) GNU, rfc, \TeX\nl
{\tx gpu.utcs.toronto.edu} (128.100.100.1) \TeX, C++, Ksh, Unixgames,
etc. (lots)\nl
{\tx hemuli.atk.btt.fi} (130.188.52.2) bsd progs for hp-ux, tex2ps\nl
{\tx hydra.helsinki.fi} (128.214.4.29) misc, \TeX, X, comp.sources.misc,
sun, uni\nl
{\tx jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov} (128.149.1.101) \TeX, Mac, Gnu, Xv11R{2, 3}\nl
{\tx june.cs.washington.edu} (128.95.1.4) \TeX hax, dviapollo, SmallTalk,
web2c, gaat\nl
{\tx labrea.stanford.edu} (36.8.0.47) dvips, paranoia, \TeX, lots, X\nl
{\tx linc.cis.upenn.edu} (128.91.2.8) psfig for ditroff, \TeX\nl
{\tx ncar.ucar.edu} (128.117.64.4) maps, bsd, internet, Mac \TeX,
resolve\nl
{\tx njitgw.njit.edu} (128.235.1.2) Mac, Sun, \TeX\nl
{\tx purdue.edu} (128.102.1) bibtex, dvi, ethics\nl
{\tx research.att.com} (192.20.225.1) \TeX, gcc, ghostscript\nl
{\tx science.utah.edu} (128.110.192.2) \TeX\ things, Hershey (tenex)\nl
{\tx score.stanford.edu} (36.8.0.46) \TeX Hax, Atari, APL metafont
(tenex)\nl
{\tx sun.soe.clarkson.edu} (128.153.12.3) Packet Driver, X11 fonts, \TeX,
PCIP, Free\nl
{\tx titan.rice.edu} (128.42.1.30) sun-spots, amiga ispell,
pc-bibtex.tar\nl
{\tx uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu} (128.174.132.2) BibTeX, CommonTeX\nl
{\tx venus.ycc.yale.edu} (192.26.88.4) SBTeX\nl
{\tx walther.cso.uiuc.edu} (128.174.5.20) \TeX, tib, ncar, dvi2ps, gif,
texx2.7, amiga\nl
{\tx wuarchive.wustl.edu} (128.252.135.4) password: guest, mirrors
simtel20 (lots), \TeX, Mac, X, GNU, GIF, Tcp-Ip
\ser{bitftp@pucc.bitnet} {Princeton University}
BITFTP is a mechanism for those without direct access to the
Internet to request files by FTP from Internet servers (like {\tx
archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu})
{\bf Access by}: Mail, RSCS FTP
{\bf Commands}: The body of your mail message or file should contain
the sequence of Internet FTP commands you would have used, one per
line, just as if you had been doing a direct Internet FTP
connection yourself.
\ser{trickle@trearn.bitnet} {The TRICKLE servers}
TRICKLE is a cache mechanism for EARN to allow users on that
network to request files from SIMTEL--20. TRICKLE runs at various
sites on EARN (see below).
{\bf Access by}: Mail, RSCS FTP, Interactive message
{\bf Commands}:\nl
{\tx /HELP}\quad sends you a help file.\nl
{\tx /PDDIR} {\st directoryname}\quad lists the names of files in that
directory.\nl
{\tx /PDGET <}{\st directory}{\tx>}{\st filename} $[${\st (tag\/}$]$
\quad sends the specified file. The tag can be {\tx (uue}, {\tx
(xxe}, {\tx (ebc80} or {\tx (ebc32}, to determine how you want the
file returned and in what format.
{\bf Example}:\nl
{\tx /pdget <msdos.tex>pcwritex.arc (uue}\quad will order the given file
from directory {\tx <msdos.tex>} in UUencoded form.\nl
{\tx /pddir <msdos.tex>}\quad will send the list of all files in the
{\tx <msdos.tex>} directory.
{\bf Notes}: TRICKLE runs at the following EARN nodes: {\tx awiwuw11},
{\tx banufs11}, {\tx imipoli}, {\tx dtuzdv1}, {\tx db0fub011} and
{\tx eb0ub011}. They are all peered, so you should use the one
which is logically nearest to your node (measured in network hops).
\ser{jonradel@bogey.princeton.edu} {Jon Radel's Repository}
Jon Radel offers a mail-order service for those users with no
access to networking.
{\bf Access by}: Post
{\bf Commands}: I quote from his message in the TeXhax bulletin 1989
No.~13:\nl
{\tx Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 03:41:23 EST }\nl
{\tx From: jonradel@bogey.Princeton.EDU (Jon Radel) }\nl
{\tx Subject: For those who don't have access to TeX for PCs on the
net...}\nl
{\tx Keywords: general, TeX, PCs }
Time to introduce myself again. As a service for people who do not
have decent access to \TeX\ to PC material on the net, I distribute
much of that material on floppies for a handling charge. That
includes the 75 font, 5 magstep collection for a couple of the
more popular printers, two versions of \TeX, and a variety of
smaller items.
For various reasons, I do all my dealings on this matter by `snail'
mail, so you have to send me a self-addressed envelope to get the
list of material that I have. 45 cents postage inside the USA, 4
International Reply Coupons or US\$1.60 for airmail elsewhere, half
that for surface (and Canada/Mexico, where surface is air as far as
the USPS is concerned).
{\bf Example}:\nl
Jon Radel, \nl
PO Box 2276, \nl
Reston, \nl
VA 22090, \nl
USA
{\bf Notes}: The \TeX\ community's thanks are due to Jon for his
provision of this service.
\ser{tex/listings@bytecosy.tower.bix.us} {BIX, the BYTE magazine Information
Exchange}
Application has been made to BYTE magazine to start a \TeX\
conference and listings area in their BIX online conferencing
and filestore system. No start date has been set for this service
yet.
{\bf Access by}: Interactive login via an ordinary X.29 (packet-switched)
call to [0]310690157800 or using a standard modem ({\tx 8,n,1}) to
+1~617~861~9767 (BELL tones for 300 and 1200 baud, BELL or CCITT
for 2400 and up). Press the Enter or Return key and at the login
prompt type {\tx bix}~. When asked for your name, type {\tx
bix.flatfee} and you will automatically be taken through the
new-user signup routine. Files can be downloaded through your modem
or X.25 connection.
{\bf Commands}:\nl
{\tx join tex}\quad joins you to the {\tx TeX} conference.\nl
{\tx topic listings}\quad joins you to the {\tx listings} area for \TeX\
files. \nl
{\tx receive} {\st filename}\quad starts downloading to your workstation
the file you specify. Immediately after pressing the Return or
Enter key for this command, you need to instruct your workstation
to receive a file using the XMODEM protocol (by default---other
protocols are available, such as KERMIT).\nl
{\tx option receive kermit}\quad instructs BIX to use the KERMIT
protocol when it sends you a file. \nl
{\tx quit}\quad leaves the listings area.\nl
{\tx bye}\quad signs you off back to your PAD or modem link.
{\bf Example}: \nl
{\tx join tex }\nl
{\tx topic listings}\nl
{\tx opt rec ymodem}\nl
{\tx receive dostex.arc}\nl
{\tx quit}\nl
{\tx bye }
{\bf Notes}: You can only use BIX for downloading files if you are
equipped with a computer running terminal emulation software which
includes file-download protocols such as KERMIT, XMODEM, YMODEM or
similar.
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Source code for the {\tx uudecode} program is known to reside on
the SIMTEL-20 server in the following files. They may be ordered
from TRICKLE in the manner detailed above.
{\tx <CPM.STARTER-KIT>UUDECODE.PAS}\nl
{\tx <MSDOS.STARTER>UUDECODE.BAS}\nl
{\tx <MSDOS.STARTER>UUDECODE.EXE}\nl
{\tx <MSDOS.STARTER>UUDECODE.C}\nl
{\tx <UNIX-C.MAIL>UUENCODE-UUDECODE.TAR-Z}
I have a copy of a program called {\tx vmsdecod.exe} for VAX/VMS
which I am happy to send to any VAX/VMS site on EARN/BITNET.
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Users of commercial mailing and messaging systems will need access
to the academic and research networks in order to use these
servers. This is currently available through an organisation called
DASnet. With a subscription to DASnet (and a small charge per
1,000 characters either direction) you can send and receive mail
from your local commercial mailbox to and from the academic and
research networks. The format of address depends a little on your
host system, but for an example I quote a mail from their
coordinator:
{\tx From: IN\%"AnnaB@11.DAS.NET"}\nl
{\tx To: cbts8001@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE }\nl
{\tx Subj: DASnet }
Peter,
How one addresses BITNET through the DASnet Service depends on the
source system. From GeoMail, it's as follows:
To use DASnet(R) to send me electronic mail from GeoMail, send mail
as follows:
{\tx To: GEO4:DASNET }\nl
{\tx Subject: user@site.bitnet!the subject }
One could address to anyone on the Internet in the same way.
[DASnet are on +1 408 559 7434]
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